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Posted on 12/03/2005 4:05:49 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
by Mark Finkelstein
December 3, 2005 - 18:48.
It's war, I tell you, war!
On Fox News Watch, the Fox show dedicated to a review of journalism, [tiny] liberal talking head Neil Gabler just branded Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity and John Gibson "demagogues."
The topic was the "war against Christmas," and nerves quickly got frayed.
Gabler's fellow lefty, Jane Hall, a normally staid presence, got exercised over what she saw as Jim Pinkerton's questioning of her religious bona fides. In a surprising bit of personal revelation, she declared herself a church-goer and insisted she would not take a back seat to anyone when it came to religious faith.
Neil Gabler took things one giant step further. He eventually declared: "there's an 800-pound gorilla in the room: Fox News. O'Reilly, Hannity and Gibson are demagogues and they know that they can rouse the public around Christmas-time" with talk about Christmas being under attack by secular forces.
Gabler stopped just short of calling Fox's audience dumb and malleable, but the implication was inescapable.
This was an ultimate "biting the hand that feeds you" moment. Perhaps Gabler was confident that, so outrageous were his remarks, they would, ironically, protect him from retribution by his employer. We'll see.
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you have a link to prove that? As far as I can remember, rating have declined across the board for just about everyone since the 2004 election.
Against Neil, Jane comes across as intelligent and cultured and occasionally reasonable.
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Pot & kettle alert!
Yeah, so whats the Down Side of that?
Most are childish and petty, they might as well look the part.
The Davis family think that Gabler, and Alan Colmes were born from the same uterus.
I would never use the words "Jane Hall" and "intelligent" without a negative in there somewhere. She's not as hateful as gabler, but IMHO, she's even stupider.
What was Cal Thomas' take on the discussion? I thought he was an Evangelical Christian.
>That poisoned dwarf. He's dumber than I thought. The funniest thing is that Pinkerton and Thomas are both like 6' 10" and he probably wouldn't break 5' 2".<
Gabler tries to make up for his shortcomings, in ALL departments, by being arrogant and talking 'tall'.
Gabler is very typical for the liberal who KNOWS he's right and is exasperated that conservatives don't have brains.
Cal was by far the most laid-back of the lot. The one comment I can remember him making concerned the "Merry Christmas vs. Happy Holidays" debate.
He said something along the lines of: "look, today's my birthday. But if someone says to me 'hello,' I'm not going to scream at him and say 'no! You've got to say Happy Birthday.'"
99% of the time I love beards on men, but, I won't say what I visualize everytime I have to look at his smug little ugly mug...I'd be banned for sure! Ugh!
We can read between the lines ;-)
He's just doing his job.
Don't know if you caught the episode, but this was more than people playing their roles, IMO. There was some raw anger on display.
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